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Education

2013 Ph.D. Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)

2009 Graduate Certificate, Women’s Studies, UNLV

2007 MA, Sociology, UNLV

2003 BA, Psychology, UNLV

Bio

Jackson's research and teaching interests are in gender & sexuality, sex work, social justice, inequalities, and feminism. She teaches sociology and gender studies courses. In Summer 2016, she co-directed an LGBTQ+ Activism Study Abroad Program in Amsterdam, coinciding with EuroPride.

Jackson explores contemporary meanings around gender, sex, sexuality, and inequalities through the study of sex work and anti-sex trafficking policy and advocacy. She has explored the meaning of worker organizing for “non-traditional” workers: sex workers. Her previous scholarship examines the political economy of commercial sex. Jackson has also researched strip club laws, attendees at an annual expo for the adult film industry, and queer adult film producers and performers. She is co-author of The State of Sex: Tourism, Sex, and Sin in the New American Heartland (Routledge, 2010), an ethnographic exploration of the only legal sale of sex in the country, Nevada’s rural brothels.